On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:36:47 +0200
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mi, 26 mar 14, 20:11:07, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
No. Dan asked for any tips. He didn't ask for package lists or other
time consuming stuff, which I wouldn't have had time for. He asked
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:17:40 -0400
Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:19:42PM +1100, Ike Shields wrote:
I have Gigabyte mother board with AMD cpu No. GA-78LMT-S2P
I need the drivers for it. I am using Debian Release 7.4 (wheezy)
64-bit
Everything on that
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:03:01 +0200
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mi, 26 mar 14, 10:25:08, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
I have no idea which mobos Debian handles out of the box, but what
I've observed is that life is much nicer if:
* You do the network
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
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I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection.
...
Then I did the following:
apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
apt-get install
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:48:10 -0700
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Hi!
I've got a MacPro G5 that refuses to run Jessie (crashes on
shutdowns, and sometimes crashes randomly without explicit
shutdown). So I have to use Wheezy on it.
I have a snazzy new HP OfficeJet 4630 all-in-one
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:24:21 +
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:19:46PM +, Brian wrote:
Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12
For systems with virtual terminal support, these keystroke
combinations are used to switch to virtual terminals 1
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:06:03 +
Robin rc.rattusrat...@gmail.com wrote:
I may have missed something. If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?
Unless you have a BIOS password or encrypted root
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:37:39 -0400
ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote:
I'm where you are, currently using a decades-old Dell Latitude with a
couple cracks in it and a non-working screen. It's plugged into an
old CRT monitor. Although, like yours, the battery lasts maybe
fifteen minutes, it's
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:25:14 +0100
Valerio Vanni vale...@valeriovanni.com wrote:
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk ha scritto nel messaggio
news:21032014113647.c62190855...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
For the situation when X is started with startx would 'startx
exit' prevent the termination
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:38:25 -0600
Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote:
Over the years since Potato, I have noticed that while each new
release was bigger and better than its predecessor, the web site
became more and more convoluted and difficult to navigate. I'm not a
web designer,
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:33:17 +0700
Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote:
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On 2014-03-19 23:02, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
* Tell it to include the nonfree repos
Did not, but ending up installing the ones I needed anyway.
Hi
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:32:10 +0700
Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote:
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It never ceases to amaze me that there are people can get various
iterations of Debian working out of the box. Ever since Sarge I
have had no end of trouble either with
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:03:03 +
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
Choosing XFCE from the beginning has already been suggested.I
suggested choosing expert install and then choosing XFCE before being
taken back to the ordinary installation. This also has the advantage
that you
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:44:21 +1100
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
Yeah, when making a machine for a less technical or less
command-prompt comfortable person, I like to have it boot into GUI
via the desktop manager. But when setting it up for myself or for
people technically
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:57:07 +0100
an...@cyberh0me.net wrote:
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 16:54 -0500, Mr Queue wrote:
I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical
locations
That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias.
Because?
for example
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 23:02:59 +0100
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 16:54 -0500, Mr Queue wrote:
I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical
locations
That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias.
Because?
Thanks,
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:54:48 -0500
Mr Queue li...@mrqueue.com wrote:
Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's?
https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp
I back up to Blu-Ray, among other things.
Often (I try to do it daily) I back up to a backup server via rsync.
Then, every
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:01:15 +
Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:45:14AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
If another OS had not been available but I knew the root password,
is there some way I could have gained access as root?
The classic approach to this
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:38:48 +
Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
Having gone back to re-read Richard's original post, he does state
that he was bringing up an install without GUI. Which poses the
question why not just log in as root to get the user name? unless
root logins are disabled,
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:34:22 -0500
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[1] not sure how this works with a disabled root account though, in
case you chose this during installation. Would a kind list
subscriber with such a setup please test and clarify this for
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:35:36 +1100
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
Conclusion: Gnome Player wins.
Correction: The command line wins :)
cdcd wodim (contains readom) bashburn
cdargs cdrskin cdtool FTW
Hi Zenaan,
Are you doing -pad and padsize=63s? Back in the day, Linux
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:10:11 +1100 (EST)
Charlie Schroeder aries...@ipstarmail.com.au wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:14:26 -0400 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
litt...@gmail.com suggested this:
But as Dave said, yelling at first-time poster for a non-repeated
minor mistake is just
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:27:43 +0100
Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
Am Montag, 10. März 2014, 13:47:18 schrieb an...@cyberh0me.net:
I accidently deleted my inbox folder (I mean the special inbox
aka Posteingang) in kmail2. Now I cannot create a new one.
How can I get it back without
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:16:12 +1100
Charlie aries...@ipstarmail.com.au wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:15:11 -0400 Dave Woyciesjes sent:
It's attitudes like that that keep people away from Debian
Linux.
Do you think so?
I definitely think so. And if we ever want our OS of choice to
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:53:05 +1100
Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Can we all move on to helping Debian users with the technical problems
now? :)
Of course we can, if somebody doesn't yell and scream and drive them
away before we can give them assistance.
Thanks,
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 08:13:43 -0700
LOwens ow...@netptc.net wrote:
Steve et al
I have a somewhat elderly Sony Vaio lappy with a Wi_Fi switch on the
side which enables/disables WiFi. The switch is a bit touchy and
often must be toggled several times before WiFi is enabled.
Larry
Hi Larry,
On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:55:05 -0400
Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:
On 3/9/2014 9:42 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 10 March 2014 00:15:18 Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
Really, calling the OP a nub ( whatever the hell he means by
that) isn't an insult?
nub, short for newbie, i.e.
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:54:13 +0100
Guy Marcenac g...@posteurs.com wrote:
Le 07/03/2014 02:16, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com a écrit :
Hi all,
I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering
moving to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support.
Normally
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 15:18:17 -0500
Patrick Alouidor aloui...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of Debian
7 on laptop Toshiba C-55A5310. and For some reason I cannot enable my
wifi switch. I have been pressing the F keys but no luck. please This
is my
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 23:35:26 -0600
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
On 3/8/2014 10:02 PM, Tom Furie wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:51:52PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 3/8/2014 2:18 PM, Patrick Alouidor wrote:
Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:05:21 +
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On 06/03/2014 22:07, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
I'll try to keep the noise down
henceforth, and aim to help others as I develop more expertise.
Don't be afraid to ask any questions. Ignore any useless answers.
+1
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:22:58 +0200
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Vi, 07 mar 14, 08:05:21, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On 06/03/2014 22:07, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
I'll try to keep the noise down
henceforth, and aim to help others as I develop more expertise.
Don't be
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 00:04:48 +1300
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:47:27AM +, Joe wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 01:28:11 -0500
Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com litt...@gmail.com wrote:
What followed XP was Vista, and who would do
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:31:34 -0500
Patrick Chkoreff p...@loom.cc wrote:
I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail:
$ uname -a
Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux
I'm using the IceWeasel browser, but I can't play a Youtube video. I
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:08:03 -0800
David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Hello.
As I am starting to subscribe to various mailing lists, I have
noticed that some uses a kind of tag in subjects. Obviously, it is
added by the
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 19:33:14 +
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Thu 06 Mar 2014 at 13:55:44 -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
On the other hand, Reco suggested that I use this image instead:
debian-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
He was very kind and took pity on your predicament.
I'd
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:04:00 -0500
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
I recently installed Debian on this laptop. Here's the detail:
$ uname -a
Linux laptop 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux
I'm
Hi all,
I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering moving
to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support. Normally, I'd
just tell them to install Xubuntu. But some of these people have memory
starved machines, and in my travels I've found that, using the Network
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:42:50 -0600
Mr Queue li...@mrqueue.com wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:16:05 -0500
Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com litt...@gmail.com wrote:
6: Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw newbies,
joining this list?
Steve that's what the GOLUG
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:31:56 +0100
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 20:16 -0500, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
wrote:
Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw newbies,
joining this list?
A few rhetorical questions:
What do your
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:46:39 -0800
David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote:
Steve Litt grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:05:41 +0100
Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote:
Lately I would add
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I can't do that, because I really need to know about that stuff. When
Jessie becomes stable, I'm going to try to work
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:38:17 +0800 (WST)
Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Steve Litt wrote:
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On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:16:35 +0100
Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote:
At least for Jessie as far as I understand all other inits are still
planned to be packaged. So either stick with sysv + insserv or choose
another one.
The decision was just about *the default*. (Is this so
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:26:48 -0800
Natural Linux naturalli...@dcemail.com wrote:
System V is NOT hard to maintain
The scripts were written YEARS ago. They're fine. They do NOT need to
be changed. Debian SysV has concurrent boot aswell.
Hey Natural Linux
You and I are different.
When I post,
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:07:33 +0100
Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote:
On 04/03/14 02:50, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions
there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also
heard from our LUG's
On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:26:25 -0700
ghaverla ghave...@materialisations.com wrote:
I will try Sabyon (sp?). But it looks like it might move to systemd
willingly leaving no option. It is based on Gentoo, which I could
move to.
Gord,
I tested Sabayon during my last distro shootout, and it's *a
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 11:31:08 -0700
ghaverla ghave...@materialisations.com wrote:
Most of the programming I have done is numerical methods,
What language did you use? I've used a little bit of Scheme, and kind
of liked it for numbers.
When you say numerical methods programming, do you mean
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:11:35 -0500
Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote:
On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
I shut down iceweasel and things seemed noticeably faster. I was
still getting the solid disk light intermittently but it's didn't
slow the system to a crawl. After restarting
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